Single page Print Asus We've already covered Asus' 12" Core Duo notebook, but the company also had several new graphics cards and motherboards at ECS KN2 SLI show. This particular model is based on Intel's new Napa platform, and it will support dual-core Yonah processors. This ECS KN2 SLI features an LGA socket, so it's likely to be less attractive for the quiet computing crowd.

However, with a cheap Pentium Dit could be one of the more affordable Viiv platforms around. It should be available in a few weeks.

CrossFire gets the Deluxe treatment In addition to a full ECS KN2 SLI of motherboards, Asus was also displaying a number of graphics cards. In terms of raw horsepower, the company's single-card dual GeForce GT was easily the most impressive.

We can see no other reasons for such a violation of motherboard building canons — perhaps the company was planning to launch other models ECS KN2 SLI such expansion cards, but what else can you add to nForce4 SLI X16 functionality?! However, if we skip the aesthetic aspect of this issue the ECS KN2 SLI majority of users have motherboards hidden inside PC casesthis Duo-N card poses no serious arrangement problems. In fact, motherboard elements are shifted from the CPU socket edge, so there is room only for five regular expansion slots.

In other respects everything is ECS KN2 SLI The same concerns the only clear CMOS jumper.

ECS engineers didn't waste time on inventing an original cooling system for the chipset unlike solutions with heat pipes, used in competing motherboards on nForce4 SLI X The aluminum heatsink on the southbridge is almost finless, ECS KN2 SLI it's equipped with a fast, audibly noisy fan that's in the very beginning of its service life, these fans tend to start howling after some time. At the same time, northbridge on the expansion card is ECS KN2 SLI with just a small pin-fin heatsink, placed so that it's blown on by the CPU cooler.